
Poetry Award Covers (L to R): Pan Macmillan/Vintage Publishing/Carcanet Press/Bloodaxe Books Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi.Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston.The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, Ware and Everest by Ed Caesar.Consumed: A Sister's Story by Arifa Akbar.The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafakīiography Award Covers (L to R): Hodder & Stoughton/Penguin Books/Penguin Books/Penguin Books.Novel Award Covers (L to R): Penguin Books/Swift Press/Penguin Books/Penguin Books First Novel Award Covers (L to R): Granta Books/Orion Publishing Co/Penguin Books/Hodder & Stoughton This year's shortlisted books and authors are. The author of the Costa Book of the Year will receives a prize of £30,000. The Prize has five categories, which include:Ī winner will be announced from each of these categories, which will be judged separately by a panel of three judges per category.Īn overall prize - the Costa Book of the Year - is also chosen by a nine-member panel, which includes representatives from the original panels, who are joined by other well-known people who love reading. Join our Facebook group for all of the latest news and discussions.Launched in 1971, the awards are one of the UK's most prestigious and popular book prizes and celebrate books by writers and residents in the UK and Ireland over the last 12 months.

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